That’s tween logic about the city!
Updated On: 24 June, 2024 06:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Fiona Fernandez
How do today’s pre-teens and teens view the local and urban history and heritage around them? They threw up some rather interesting responses during this columnist’s many interactions with this age group
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It`s right opposite Starbucks…I’ve seen this white building!” a student yelled out. He was hoping that this half-answer would win him bragging rights among his classmates during a fun, interactive quiz centred on content from my book, H for Heritage: Mumbai, which I had recently hosted for schoolchildren at a city venue. He was referring to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. Another student got the correct answer, much to his dismay.
But it was replies like this that made the session particularly insightful. For me, the key takeaway was how this young audience connected with the city and its people, its conversations and places from a slightly different lens—their universe. Take for example the boy’s reference to the popular coffee shop chain in my opening para. It was possibly a regular adda for him and his group of friends, and hence, it resonated a lot more than the neighbouring heritage landmark, which happened to be in the same frame of his wanderings in that area. A similar realisation emerged about how this age group looked at modern urban history. A student quizzer rattled off most of the names of locations of the Mumbai terror attacks. It came up as additional information in reply to his correct answer to my question about Victoria Terminus, or today’s CSMT.
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